Here you will find details of current laboratory, social and clinical studies relating to HIV cure that are underway in Australia. Click on the ‘details’ link for more information about eligibility and what study participation would involve. PRADA: HIV Persistence in Reservoirs at Alfred, Doherty and The Avenue This study involves looking for immune checkpoint markers…

Study type Summary Inclusion Criteria Participation requirements Status Cross-sectional/laboratory based study The PRADA study will look to see if the immune checkpoint markers CTLA-4 and PD-1 can be found on white blood cells from the blood and lymph nodes of HIV+ participants taking ART. The study is trying to find out if CTLA-4 and PD-1 can be found on…

Attempts to cure HIV have been thwarted by a particular type of immune-system cell that can hide the virus. These long-lived infected T cells can evade detection by the body for years, and are hard to find, study and kill. Reliably identifying these covert reservoirs is top of the wish-list for HIV researchers, but they’ve…

Brent Allan (CEO, Living Positive Victoria) talks to Professor Sharon Lewin (Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity) about common questions people have about cure research. How far away is a cure? If my regular HIV treatment can make me undetectable why can’t it cure me? Is there any benefit to starting HIV…

Miranda Smith, James McMahon, Brent Allan and Sharon Lewin

Medical research and the media often make an uncomfortable mix. Research can be slow going with many different ideas and uncertainty popping up along the way. The media is fast paced, seeking sound bites and certainty with often-inflexible deadlines. However, as most research is publically funded we need to ensure that the community is kept…

If you’ve got a few spare moments, watch the wonderful Nic Holas from HIV advocacy group The Institute of Many interview Professor Sharon Lewin. They discuss the latest in the search for an HIV cure. This interview first aired as a Facebook Live event on March 1st 2017, just a few days after the Conference on…

Sharon Lewin and Thomas Rasmussen

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Sharon Lewin, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Thomas Aagaard Rasmussen, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Antiretroviral therapy has revolutionised the lives of people living with HIV. In many countries, the life expectancy for someone living with…

Miranda Smith

Timothy Ray Brown’s HIV cure passed its 10th anniversary in mid-February. At the same time, leading HIV researchers met in Seattle to share the latest developments in HIV science. The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is a major platform for cutting-edge HIV research of all types. This year, CROI included a pre-conference workshop on…

The Australian HIV Cure Community Partnership was established in 2014 to draw together clinicians, researchers and people living with HIV who are engaged with and interested in research towards an HIV cure. HIVcure.com.au is a major initiative of the partnership. Newsletters with updates on partnership activities can be accessed here: April 2017 October 2016 February 2016

In the autumn issue of Positive Living: ‘Should you tell?’ — positive people offer their views on disclosure, tell all or keep shtum? In cure news we explain how engineered T-cells show promise in the fight against HIV. ‘Living in the back of beyond’ — positive people share the challenges of living with HIV in…

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About NAPWHA

Founded in 1989, The National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA) is Australia’s peak non-government organisation representing community-based groups of people living with HIV (PLHIV).